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R. Scott Bakker _ The Unholy Consult
All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before
She led a submerged life, a life catacombed by poverty and ignorance"
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness That Comes Before
Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of words spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another soul to carry our own.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before
The more crowded the concerns of the present, the more difficult it became to see the ways in which the past portended the future. Had
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness That Comes Before
The darkness was crisp, as though scraped of sight and smell by winter's razor.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
She acted for reasons she knew not, spoke words she did not understand, pursuing ends that she could neither fathom nor bear. The
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before
Where power was perceived, power was given.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before
No, Leweth. You fled to remember. You fled to conserve all the ways your wife had moved you, to shield the ache of her loss from the momentum of others. You fled to make a bulwark of your misery.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before
No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of words spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another soul to carry our own." He paused, cutting short his reply in order to bewilder the man. Insight struck with so much more force when it clarified confusion. "This is truly why you fled to Sobel, Leweth.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness That Comes Before
Dreams drawn from the sheath.
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